In the New Testament, encouragement within the church was a powerful force. It helped believers persevere in their faith against the currents of society. Those dynamics have not changed.
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Who are the apostles among us? It all really depends on how you define the term ‘apostle’… and it can be defined in many different ways.
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You can’t apply for the role of an apostle. It is not the top of a career ladder. Apostleship is anointing from heaven that is recognised by others and demonstrated by effective fruitfulness in apostolic activity. So how do we recognise an apostle?
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Our concepts of leadership can be easily shaped by the leadership culture of the world, and we have to work hard to shape our leadership culture around the principles we find in the Bible.
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What was once a single network is now a ‘network of networks’, with each one encouraged to assume its own identity and priorities whilst seeking to retain shared values, vision, purposes and relationships.
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…the New Testament is a ‘one generation’ account, describing the life and ministry of Jesus and the commissioning of the first generation of apostles, but with very little account given of how this ministry was then handed on to successive generations.
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In the first of a series of posts looking at our new shape in detail, Maurice Nightingale starts an important discussion on how our shape change is part of the ongoing story of Newfrontiers: how will this second generation of network and movement leaders navigate this next transition to the third life cycle of the movement?
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"You do not need to be married to be a fully realised person.” Tom Scrivens reports on a recent conference on ‘Identity in Christ’, hosted by Living Out.
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